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Cake day: December 24th, 2025

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  • Is it wrong of me to think this part sounds a bit sus?

    The year it was stolen the piece was appraised at between $35,000 and $50,000, DeLind said. He guessed that the value hasn’t changed much since then, but now given its story it may be worth closer to $50,000.

    DeLind said his former business partner, who died in February, was distraught over the theft in 2018 and called police every year on the anniversary of the crime asking that they publicize it again in the hope the Picasso could be found.

    The story of theft increases its value. And it just so happens to suddenly resurface (within the same city even) only after the business partner is dead.











  • zikzak025@lemmy.worldtome_irl@lemmy.worldMe_irl
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    And that’s how they got to announcing these things in an all hands meeting.

    For any planned downtime, we use routine standup calls. When people usually say “This should have been an email”, they’re usually referring to meetings for something specific that did not need a dedicated meeting. A routine standup or all hands meeting covering a series of small items and important notices is exactly its purpose.

    A meeting that should have been an email would be like “Here are the new features coming to our frontend” where you could have just sent the 2-3 bulleted items for what minor changes will be added instead of wasting 30 minutes of everyone’s time on an overdone PowerPoint slideshow.

    And then on the inverse end, things that should not be emails:

    • If there is a chain of 2-3 people using Reply All to have a back and forth, that should have been an IM. No need to rope 20 other people into your 1 on 1.

    • If there is an email that triggers 10+ concerned Reply Alls from different people, you should probably set up a quick call to hash it out and level set. A busy email chain is hard to follow and will end up with multiple loose threads.








  • Yes. Is it that hard to imagine a forced rollout is still yielding monthly growth as people replace devices or take upgrades they didn’t check?

    Obviously the elderly and the dumb will go out of their way to download it directly, hence the decently large volume of users on iOS, but that population only accounts for 10% of use cases. Users of the Android app probably make up a larger chunk of that pie, but that’s where we run back into the muddy terrain of whether people went out of their way to download it, or if it was just forced on them by default. My current phone came with it by default, and it took a bit of effort to disable it everywhere.

    Did you read the article, or did you just have Gemini parse it?